Yakuza: Of The End

SEGA has released a new video for Yakuza: Dead Souls featuring playable characters Goro Majima and Ryuji Goda. Apparently, Majima is so mad about zombies, he picks fights with them just for the fun of it. Goda, on the other hand, has a prosthetic arm which can transform into a gatling gun. Interesting. Dead Souls, […]

Yakuza: Of the End is a game about Japanese mafia zombies. Crazy? Brilliant? Both? We have no idea. But – seeing as that description probably secretes some sort of pheromone-based Western exec repellent – we weren’t exactly hopeful that we’d ever get to find out. Show’s what we know, though, because the apparent result of a genre-based […]

Sega’s announced that the Yakuza series as a whole has now shipped 5 million units worldwide. Together with the announcement comes the news the latest game in the series, zombie-themed Of The End, has shipped 400,000 units in its first two weeks on sale in Japan. The series has seen seven titles as a whole: […]

Ok, we’re pretty sure he’s joking about that bit. But whether or not the series trades its hordes of puking zombies for arguably more horrifying hordes of drooling children, Yakuza producer Masayoshi Kikuchi made one point explicitly clear: “We want to spread the Yakuza franchise into different genres,” he stated.